San Diego Bishop McElroy To Relocate To Los Angeles

[Where will LA’s incumbent Archbishop Gomez go? – Back to Opus Dei to become its new Prelate, which is currently “sede vacante”?]

JANUARY 12, 2017 BY EOTT ADMIN

San Diego bishop Robert McElroy announced today that he would be relocating to Los Angeles, ending a two-year stint with San Diego.

McElroy has notified Pope Francis and other bishops of his intent to move to Los Angeles by the 2017 Lenten season, sources said.

“At first I hoped it was fake news,” San Diego Hall of Fame bishop Robert Brom said of the move. “It’s something that is unfathomable, but it is reality.”

“This has been a very difficult decision for McElroy to make,” a source close to the diocese said. “While the economics of the decision have been clear, McElroy’s loyalty to San Diego has made the decision to move difficult.”

Last year’s Acolyte Rookie of the Year Donovan Thomas said, “More than anything, I’m shocked. I didn’t think it was going to happen. I thought he was going to stay in San Diego…so I guess L.A. is his new diocese then. Sweet.”

Earlier this year, McElroy’s efforts to have San Diego tithers help pay for a new state-of-the-art pastoral center was strongly rejected by parishioners.

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Despite FrankenPope warning “against ambitious prelates who want to be promoted from one diocese to a more prestigious one” and reminding them of “the ancient view that bishops ‘are married to a Church’ and should not be ‘in constant search for another'” (Thomas Reese, S.J., in the National un-Catholic Reporter) such as something bigger (an archdiocese) and/or better (a Vatican dicastery and/or a red hat), His Holiness has been busy fulfilling such ambitions by advancing “friendly” bishops; for example, Cupich after four years in Spokane to Chicago and then a red hat, Joe “Big Red” Tobin with a red hat after five years in Indianapolis (unprecedented for that archdiocese) and then to Newark, and Farrell from Dallas to a new Vatican dicastery and presumably a red hat in the near future.